mangrove swamp

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noun

a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.

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Origin of mangrove swamp

First recorded in 1850–55

For example, if a factory owner can’t figure out how to eliminate their emissions with current technologies, they can pay to restore a mangrove swamp that will absorb an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.
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Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue.
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Electric Swamp Blues How can you possibly find authentic swamp blues in Portland, Oregon?
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Klain is not the first to crawl out of the swamp of Biden World on to the larger stage.
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When the pioneers reached Toledo it was called “Frogtown” because the place was a swamp.
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Yeager took the photo while balancing on a raft in a muddy Jamaican swamp.
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A native brought news that a collector and his wife were hiding in a swamp near the road.
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Two companies deployed over a swamp and went along the beach under cover of the Utah Battery.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The swamp is more easily accessible from Virginia than from North Carolina.
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In the campaign in Holland last war, a party marching through a swamp, was ordered to form two deep.
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At the bottom of Knocker's Bay is a shoal mangrove opening, of no importance.
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